by Tynessa
Star did better than I thought she would do, six pushes then I heard my Jr. crying. We agreed that we were going to name him Cornell Jerome Daniels Jr. I was so happy about my son and I was going to make sure he didn’t want for anything.
Ronny
Shaniqua opened her eyes right after my brother walked out of the room, she looked at me and gave a faded smile. Lately she’s been a little down because her and Star hadn’t been really talking to one another then Brooke moved back to Maryland two weeks ago. Shan tried to talk her out of it but she kept saying it was something she had to do. I didn’t know what that was about but I do know it broke my boy Bino’s heart.
“Alright Ronny, you gonna be up all night trying to rock her back to sleep when you spoil her,” Shan said.
“I do that with Niyah anyways,” I said getting up to put her in the little hospital bed.
“Lies you tell. Give her to me,” she said reaching for her. That was all her ass wanted anyway.
“All you had to say is you wanted her.”
She rolled her eyes. “Whatever… hey mama Ni-Ni,” she said kissing her forehead and I grabbed Niyah and sat back down. We decided to name the new baby Ray’Niyah after Ray’Shun and Shaniyah. That was my idea.
“Hey miss Niyah Poo,” Shan said.
“Hey Mama,” she said never taking her eyes off the TV that was on Dora.
“So Star having the baby?” Shan asked me.
“Yeah, that’s what my brother said.”
She just nodded her head. I felt bad and didn’t want to see my fiancé sad but I was happy because I didn’t like Star’s little ass smiling all in her face. We were making small talk when my ma walked in smiling. “She had the baby y’all,” she announced.
Neither one of us said anything at first. I was not going to say I didn’t care because even though Star’s ass is on that bullshit and I didn’t like her, at the end of the day that is my little nephew she just had so I had to smile.
“Here, I took pictures for y’all,” my ma said whipping out her phone. She took the phone to Shan so she could see him first. She got the phone, I saw a tear fall, and she smiled. “He’s handsome. He looks just like Nell’s ass though.” She laughed and passed me the phone.
“Damn sure do. She must’ve stayed mad at that nigga,” I said. “I can’t wait to spoil that lil nigga. Teach my lil niggas how to get all the hoes,” I said laughing. Shan threw one of Ni-Ni’s blankets at me and my mom snatched her phone.
“What? Since I’m not in the game anymore my legacy gots to live on,” I said still laughing.
‘You know what Ronny? You about two seconds from getting fucked up,” Shan glared at me. I got up out the chair. “I’m just playing baby,” I said kissing her on the lips before telling her I loved her. My mom just shook her head.
“Boy you every bit of Willie McDay… From them damn eyes, those looks and that smooth ass talking to get you into some panties.”
“Daddy Willie said he’s going to get you back,” Shan said but my ma didn’t say anything back. She just smacked her lips and rolled her eyes. I knew she still wanted my dad back, I didn’t know why she was always playing hard to get.
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4 weeks later
I was out with my niggas at the club when I saw Strawberry walk by. I smacked her on the ass and she turned around smiling.
“What’s up girl?” I said as I hugged her giving her a little squeeze.
“Hey boo. I haven’t seen you since the last time you left my house. You been hiding from me?”
I pulled away. “No, nothing like that. A nigga got engaged.”
She rubbed the back of her neck, I wasn’t about to tell her I got engaged the day after I last saw her. “Well congrats… I guess,” she said trying to walk off but I pulled her back into my arms, for whatever reason.
“Come on girl, don’t be mad.” Strawberry was cool as hell and I really wasn’t trying to hurt her by telling her that.
“It’s cool.” She smiled but I could tell it was forced. “Come on,” she said pulling me to the dance floor. She was out there grinding her hips on my dick and my shit was harder than a motherfucker.
“Damn girl, you got my shit hard as fuck right now,” I whispered in her ear.
She grabbed my shit and gave it a squeeze “I can take care of that for you,” she said and grabbed my hand leading me to the exit.
We headed straight to my car that was parked in the front. I was assuming she saw it before she went in because it wasn’t hard to miss. I hit the remote to start it up and unlock the doors as we were walking to it. I walked her around to the passenger side where we hugged once again but that time she tried to kiss me. I pulled back.
“Whoa! What you doing?” I asked looking at her like she was crazy. She knew I wasn’t with that kissing shit.
“I just wanted a little peck on the lips.”
“I’m good on that. You know I’m not with that kissing.” Shan and my daughters were the only females I kissed. I didn’t play like that!
“Okay, let’s just go,” she said and I opened the door and after she got in I closed it. I was horny as fuck and what Shan didn’t know won’t hurt her. I stood there for a few minutes before rubbing my hand down my face. Fuck!
Shaniqua
I was lying in bed cuddling with my kids since Ronny’s ass decided he wanted to go out. I didn’t argue with him since he promised he would be home at a reasonable time even though I really didn’t want him to go at all. I was sound asleep when I felt Ni-Ni being removed from my arms. I grabbed her and jumped straight up looking around for my other kids.
“It’s only me baby,” Ronny said.
“You scared me,” I said releasing her. He apologized and placed her in her bassinet. I wasn’t ready for her to sleep in her crib that was in the nursery.
“Where is Niyah and Ray’Shun?”
“I already put them in their beds,” he said as he stripped out of his clothes and got in bed pulling me close to him.
“Did you have fun?” I asked not really caring if he did or didn’t.
“Not really. I missed you,” he said kissing me on the ear, then the neck. The cheap perfume I smelled on him was making me sick to my stomach and any other time I would be questioning him because that meant another bitch was too close to him. But lately he hadn’t given me any reason not to trust him. He was rubbing all over my body and his dick was rock hard. I won’t lie that shit was feeling good but my six weeks wasn’t up just yet.
“Baby, you know we can’t go there.”
He froze. “FUCK!” he gave me one last kiss on the cheek before lying his head back on the pillow. “I forgot,” he said.
I turned to face him and gently kissed him on the lips. “Sorry baby,” I said.
“Can you just kiss him for me then?” he asked smiling.
I smacked my lips and rolled my eyes while grabbing his penis. I kind of felt bad because my boo was horny and I couldn’t give him any. He knew my six weeks wasn’t up yet and I didn’t know why he was so horny but I wasn’t about to send my fiancé to bed with a hard dick. I had to learn the hard way, if I didn’t please my man, there were plenty of bitches out there that will.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of my phone going off. I grabbed it off the nightstand quickly so it wouldn’t wake Ni-Ni up. It was a text message. I opened it up and it was a picture of a guy and some female hugging. The picture was kind of dark and blurry so I couldn’t make out who it was. I put the phone back down only for it to go off again. I snatched it back up. I sat up in bed because this time I saw my fiancé standing outside of his car hugging some light skin chick. She looked familiar. I didn’t even recognize the number as I dialed it on my phone but it went straight to the voice mail.
I looked over at sleeping Ronny and just stared at him before looking back down at my phone that was still in my hand. I stared at the picture then it hit me. I saw that bitch at the club I used to work at that night Brooke an
d me went. I never forget a face. I then looked back at Ronny and wanted to push his ass out of the bed.
“Why your phone keep going off?” he asked sleepily as he opened his eyes. I hit the end button to take me back to the home screen on my phone.
“That was Star texting to see what I’m doing today,” I said placing my phone back on the nightstand. I eased back into his arms. “What you do after you left the club?”
“I came back to the house. I wasn’t really feeling it so I left before they closed.”
I just nodded my head. How could I be so stupid once again? I asked myself. I should have known; Ronny would always be a liar and a cheater. I guess K. Michelle was right, ‘You can’t raise a damn man!’
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“I need you to ride with me somewhere Star,” I said to my sister as we sat in her dining room.
“Where?”
All that had been on my mind for the last 2 weeks was the picture someone sent to me of Ronny and that girl. The phone was still going straight to the voicemail so I didn’t even know if it was her sending it or what. I took out my phone and slid it across the table so Star could see it.
“I’m going to pay this bitch a visit.”
She looked at me puzzled. “Pay her a visit where Shan? I don’t know why you always fall for Ronny’s bullshit. He is not about to be faithful to you or anyone else. He’s a dog!” Star said. But she was the same bitch that said she wanted a man like him.
“Man whatever! Are you going or not?”
“Yeah, I’m going but I’m not going to jail when she let you know they’re fucking around.”
I was already feeling bad without her adding her two cents in. I hated I even asked her to come. It was times like this I wished Brooke’s ass was still around. I grabbed my baby from her and put her in her car seat.
She told Nell she was about to run with me somewhere, kissed her little man, and we were out the door. I dropped Ni-Ni off at home with Ronny and was grilled by him about being out at 10 o’clock at night. I wasn’t trying to hear shit he had to say though!
Star and I walked in the club dressed in sweats and a t-shirt. “I feel so out of place,” Star said but I kept walking. I saw one of the dancers that worked there when I started and that was damn near 8 years ago. It’s time for that bitch to retire, I thought as I walked over to her.
“Aye Caramel.”
“Honey!” she screamed excitedly as she hugged me. “How have you been?”
“I’ve been good…” I felt Star tap me on the shoulder. I looked back at her and she pointed to a girl dancing for an older guy.
“Is that her?”
I didn’t say anything. I just walked over to where the girl was. I tapped her on the shoulder. “May I talk to you for a minute?” I said and the bitch had the nerve to look me up and down before telling me she was busy.
“I understand that and I’m not trying to stop your money from flowing in. But I’m trying to see how the fuck do you know my fiancé.” I was trying not to cause a scene since damn near the whole club knew Ronny and me. I didn’t need for them to go back telling him shit.
“Okay, and who is your fiancé?” she looked confused.
I was becoming agitated “Ronny is my fiancé. How do you know him?”
She looked back at the man and whispered in his ear before turning towards me. She waved for me to follow her and we walked to a table in the corner with Star right behind us. For once I was nervous of what she was about to tell me about the man I was planning on marrying. We all sat down and she began to speak.
“You must be Shan?” she said extending her arm for a handshake.
“The one and only,” I said looking at her hand. “I didn’t come to make any friends; I came to see why someone sent this shit to my phone.” I pulled out my phone and held it to her face so she could see the picture.
She looked at the picture and laughed, “Okay, yeah me and Ronny USED to fuck around.”
“WHAT!”
She held up her hand. “Calm down. I think y’all had broken up or something because I heard him talking to you one morning he was at my house, he was saying something about coming to get the kids. I don’t know; that wasn’t any of my business.”
“No it wasn’t. So when was the last time y’all fuck?”
She looked up as if she was thinking “Girl it been months… I don’t know.”
I felt a little better then. “So if y’all haven’t been together in months then why would you send this shit to my phone?”
“I didn’t send that photo,” she said shaking her head “I don’t know who would do something like that.”
I don’t know why but I believe she didn’t. “Okay, one more question. Why were you that close to my man?”
“Girl look, Ronny’s ass loves you. He told me he was engaged or what not and no disrespect to you… but I still wanted the dick. He was about to give it to me too.”
I just tilt my head to the side as she continued talking.
“We walked to his car and I even got in but I guess he thought about it and came to his senses because he opened the door and grabbed me by the wrist pulling me out saying he couldn’t cheat on his fiancé, he loves you too much and he wasn’t about to lose you.”
I just sat there speechless.
“WHAT?” Star shouted. “And you believe that Shan?”
I just smiled as a tear dropped from my eye. My baby really did change!
Chapter 18
Brooke
“The love is gone Bo, I don’t wanna be here anymore. Just sign these damn papers so I can leave,” I said to my husband.
A month ago he wanted me to come back home to see if the love I had for him was really gone. Since I wasn’t sure, I decided to come back. I really didn’t want to leave Bino like that even though he walked out on me but this was something I had to do. He was calling me for a week straight but I wasn’t answering, I even put his number on callers block. I felt bad for it but in order for us to move forward this had to be done.
Bo on the other hand was working my last nerve. He had even became a powder head. He was so skinny now and always fidgeting and twitching. If you ask me, he was doing more than powder. Even if he cleaned himself up there was no way, shape, or form I was still going to be with him. He disgusts me and that was before I found out about his drug habit.
“I’m not giving you shit!” he screamed. “You just want to go lay up with that nigga,” he said.
“Whether you give it to me or not, I’m leaving and going back home.”
“You can go all you want but my kids will not be around him. They deserves to be here with their father.”
“He has been more of a father to My Kids than you have throughout this whole damn marriage.”
He jumped off the couch and charged at me, grabbing me around the neck. “Don’t you ever compare what another man does to what I do. I’m still their damn daddy no matter what that nigga does!” He was so close that he was spitting in my face.
I tried to push him off me but he wasn’t budging. I picked up a vase that was on the end table and hit him in the head.
“Don’t you ever put your fucking hands on me again!” I shouted.
The little hit didn’t faze him at all, he just stood there looking at me like a damn manic. I was a little frighten but I wasn’t about to let him know that.
“Now are you gonna sign these damn papers or not because whether you do or don’t I’m leaving and not looking back.”
He did something that I never saw him do before. Cry.
“What the fuck are you crying for?” I asked. I didn’t feel sorry for his ass at all. Did he feel sorry for me when he was fucking that bitch in my bed with our kids in the next room? Exactly, so why should I feel sorry for his ass.
“I just don’t want you to leave,” he finally said.
“Really Bo? Why would I stay? Look at all the bullshit you did to me. I’ll be a damn fool to stay with you.”
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sp; “I didn’t mean any of the pain I caused. I know we can work through this and put it behind us,” he sounded like a fucking fool.
“We’re not putting shit behind us Bo! Look at you, you are on drugs, you stank and let’s not forget all the times you’ve stolen from me. Oh and we’re not going to even mention all the times you’ve raped and beat me whenever I didn’t let you have your way with me,” I said as I turned to walk away but was yanked back by my hair. I turned around, swung, and we began fist fighting like two men.
It was a good thing my kids were next door at my old neighbor’s house because their father and I was going at it. I was letting out all the frustration I had built up in me for so long out on his ass. I had him screaming like a bitch. After fighting for almost 2 hours he finally told me to get the fuck out of his house but not before he signed the divorce papers.
I got my kids and headed straight to the airport not bothering to pack our clothes we had there.
Bino
I knew Amber should have been the last person to be laying up with. No, we were not together; it was just sex. She came over wanting to see my daughter; I was horny so one thing lead to another, and end up in my bed. It only happened this one time and I was not planning to do it again.
“Baby, your phone is ringing,” she said to me as if I couldn’t hear it. I mean I was lying right beside it.
I grabbed it off the nightstand and looked at the screen debating if I wanted to answer it or not. Fuck it. “Yeah,” I answered getting out of the bed.